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Treating ulcerative colitis with GMA

Certain factors, such as a recent relapse and low white blood cell counts, are predictive of successful treatment of ulcerative colitis using adsorptive granulocyte and monocyte apheresis

BMC Gastroenterology 2013, 13:27
Swine virus protects from human influenza

A swine influenza virus that grows to high titres and exhibits cross-reactivity was identified and used as an inactivated vaccine to protect mice from the 2009 H1N1 pandemic strain.

Virology Journal 2013, 10:47
Viremia absent in children with rotavirus

Rotavirus (RVA) viremia was not found in children with rotavirus diarrhea, and could not be identified via the presence of antigenemia in the patients’ serum.

Journal of Negative Results in BioMedicine 2013, 12:5
Hepatitis C: lessons from a meta-analysis

Kazuaki Chayama and Nelson Hayes discuss a recent study in BMC Medicine assessing the extent of effects of IL28B polymorphisms in spontaneous and therapy-induced hepatitis C virus clearance.

Genome Medicine 2013, 5:6
Dual tasks increase PFC activity in older adults

When performing physical and mental tasks simultaneously, older adults have higher prefrontal cortex (PFC) activity lasting longer than younger adults, indicating that high cognitive load induced by dual-task activity generates increased PFC activity.

BMC Neuroscience 2013, 14:10